Strong Decays of Hybrid Mesons from the Heavy Quark Expansion of QCD

Abstract

We calculate the strong decays of hybrid mesons to conventional mesons for all the lowest lying J^PC hybrids of flavour uu, dd, ss, cc and bb. A decay operator developed from the heavy quark expansion of quantum chromodynamics is employed. We show that the selection rule that hybrid mesons do not decay to identical S-wave mesons, found in other models, is preserved. We predict decays of charmonium hybrids, discuss decays of J^PC=1^-+ exotic isovector hybrids of various masses, and interpret the π(1800) as a hybrid meson.

arXiv comment5 pages, LaTeX, 2 eps figures. Contribution to the Seventh International Conference on Hadron Spectroscopy (HADRON '97), Brookhaven, August 1997. In collaboration with Eric S. Swanson and Adam P. Szczepaniak

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